To Train the Fleet for War: The U.S. Navy Fleet Problems, 1923-1940

Newport, RI: Naval War College Press, 2010. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. Format is approximately 8 inches by 10 inches. xxvi, [2], 392 pages. Map. Illustrations. Notes. Appendices. References and Bibliography. Index. Foreword by John B. Hattendorf. This is Naval War College Historical Monograph Series No. 18. Albert A. Nofi (born January 6, 1944), is an American military historian and defense analyst. In 1999 Nofi became a research analyst with the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA), in Alexandria, Virginia, where he worked with game theorist Peter P. Perla. Nofi was the CNA field representative to the Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group, in Rhode Island, from 2001 until mid-2005, before returning to CNA. While at CNA he wrote "Recent Trends in Thinking About Warfare" and several other analytical papers. He retired from CNA at the end of 2006. This was awarded the John Lyman Book Award in Navy History by the North American Society for Oceanic History. . From a review posted on-line: Albert Nofi’s To Train the Fleet for War: The U.S. Navy Fleet Problems, 1923-1940 adds to the growing literature on the interwar United States Navy with a discussion of the organization and course of fleet problems. Nofi is an accomplished naval historian who worked for the Center for Naval Analyses as a research analyst. To Train the Fleet for War provides comprehensive coverage of the fleet problems by setting them in the context of the Second World War. The account is based on the records of the fleet problems held at the Naval War College as well as secondary works on the interwar U.S. Navy. Nofi concludes that through the fleet problems the U.S. Navy came to understand future combat operations “in terms of surface, undersea, and marine forces integrated into a combined arms “naval force” (xxvi) and “learned to fight World War II”. Condition: Very good.

Keywords: U.S. Navy, Naval Training, Fleet Problems, Joint Army-Navy Exercise, Amphibious Operations, Chief of Naval Operations, Ernest King, Marine Corps, Naval War College, William Pratt, Joseph Reeves, James Richardson, Scouting Fleet, John Hattendorf

ISBN: 9781884733697

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Price: $200.00

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